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I've just done a search to see what sort and brands were recommended and it seems I was one of the last people to ask about tumble dryers..
However that was a few years ago, and the one we bought has just taken up smoking, plus it seemed to create a lot of lint dust in the house.
So I'm back to ask if anyone has bought a dryer in the last couple of years, and if so what type and what model, and most importantly why ?
We have a condenser, but drilling a hole for a vent is not a big problem, I don't have the odd £1200 or whatever for a Miele unless there is a convincing reason to find it,
so please educate me ...
 
We bought a Beko from an online electrical store about 6 years ago for around £200. The reviews were great, its a condenser and has been faultless for us with light use. We bought one for our daughter a few years ago which was a slightly newer model and with 3 children under 9 it gets hammered and she loves it.
 
I have an Indesit (vented to the outside) and it is excellent. I got it for nothing.
Whirlpool machines sold under it’s Hotpoint, Indesit, Creda, Swan and Proline brands were recalled due to fire risk.
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Is your tumble dryer a fire risk? - Morgan Clark

Electrical appliances account for approximately 12% of UK house fires and tumble dryers are frequently to blame. In 2019, a recall notice was issued over concerns that an estimated 500,000 Whirlpool tumble dryers posed a potential fire risk. Prior to this, millions of Whirlpool machines sold...
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Whirlpool kept trying to make me accept a repair, but I refused and the gov. made them offer new machines to everyone affected.
I never had any hint of fire, but I always cleaned the fluff filter after every use. I have the TD in a shed 30yds from my house (just to be safe :chicken: )
 
We bought a new one a month ago , the old one gave up (it was only 35+ years old it was in the house when I bought it -really nothing lasts these days).
We bought a Hotpoint non condensing , it lives in a room just off the outside door so we leave the door open when its on and get virtually no condensation , it seems better than the old one for that.
Came from the local electrical store cost £230 delivered, installed and the old one taken away.
We looked at a condenser but the running cost was higher and it was more expensive for no perceived benefit.
 
We had an all singing and dancing tumble dryer, didn't actually use most of the advanced settings.
It was identified as being of the dangerous firestarters so we sought a solution.

In the end Hotpoint offered us a brand new no frills Tumble Dryer for 59 quid, couldn't argue with that.
That included removal of the old machine, no idea if they modified or scrapped them.

Point of this being we haven't missed the plethora of advanced settings so my advice would be go for a basic model.
 
Another vote for Beko (y)
 
Thank you all for your replies.
I've only ever used 2 settings so basic sounds good to me !
What I don't like about our current dead one is the amount of dust/lint it puts out.
I clean the filter almost every time, and wonder if ours was faulty in that way from new.
I'm tempted to try an external venting one this time so will look at Beko.
 
We had a non-condensing one for many years but when that went we got a Bosch Classixx WTE84106GB Sensor Condenser Tumble Dryer, 7kg Load, B Energy Rating, White. It has been working great for 4 years, no dust etc. Quite a few settings but we just use 2, the auto turn off is an advantage.
No idea what the up to date equivalent would cost.
 
We have an 11 year old Hotpoint Aquarius condenser dryer which has had the after purchase safety check done. I think it cost around £250 and seems to work fine. You have to keep all the filters clean and take the back off once a year to make sure there is no dust build up.
 
I've got a Samsung Heat pump version, costs next to nothing to run use it all the time even in summer on hot sunny days. Can even dry non dryer stuff.
 
Do you really need a tumbler dryer? My thinking is that, they're more suited for people who are extremely busy, and don't have time to wait for their clothes to dry on the washing line outside, or on those airing racks indoors. (Which begs the question: Don't they have spare clothes they can use, while waiting?)

My suggestion is: Instead of deciding to buy or not to buy based on asking us if we buy or not buy, you should be asking yourself, do you really need one?

Use your experience as a photographer to guide yourself into thinking about buying one or not. Anyone remember those days when you started doing photography for the first time, and spent do much money buying a lot of photographic accessories to fill up your camera bag? Remember that over the many years, as you become specialist in one field (ie: becoming a sport photographer, or becoming a landscape photographer), you would later find that of all those accessories you bought, half of them haven't even been used at all.

We could have saved money by asking: Do I really need that fancy filter? Do I really need that cable release?

You could save a lot of money, not only because if you chose not to buy a tumbler dryer, but also in terms of electricity bills too, and also the costs of repairs. Plus you could help the planet Earth, if you chose to give up tumbler dryer.

In case you really need to get some clothes dry as quickly as possible (ie: for a job interview), you could always take the important clothes to the local launderette to get them dry fast, while you leave the less important ones to take dry out in the usual way. Or you could ask your family or friends for a favour and use their tumbler dryer if they have one.

I had been a very extremely busy full-time single parent of two kids, specially as I was a full-time carer for one of them whom have special needs. I did once think about a washing machine with built-in tumbler dryer so I could save time, but decided not to, on grounds of costs. The best thing to do was make sure there are plenty of spare clothes, so if the dirty ones were washed and takes long time to dry out, the kids will have spare cloths available.

In the event that if I needed a few clothes that really needs to be dried as soon as possible, I can always do that at the launderette.

It had helped me save costs.
 
Our washing machine has a dryer built in. We used the dryer a lot at one time but now it only gets used on Monday nights. That's because we do a double wash on that day and don't have enough hanging space indoors for the extra clothes. It's nice to have but we could manage without it if we had to.
 
I have never owned a tumble dryer or a dishwasher.

I can see why a family might want one but not a single person or couple.
 
simon ess said:
I have never owned a tumble dryer or a dishwasher.

I can see why a family might want one but not a single person or couple.
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I'm a single person and I can see why I have both. For one thing the dishwasher uses less water than washing plates in the sink, and the tumble helps a lot with condensation caused by drying clothes on an airer in the house.

Also, I don't know how much more life I'm going to get and I don't want to spend any of it washing dishes and pans in the sink.
 
Major Eazy said:
Do you really need a tumbler dryer? My thinking is that, they're more suited for people who are extremely busy, and don't have time to wait for their clothes to dry on the washing line outside, or on those airing racks indoors. (Which begs the question: Don't they have spare clothes they can use, while waiting?)

My suggestion is: Instead of deciding to buy or not to buy based on asking us if we buy or not buy, you should be asking yourself, do you really need one?

Use your experience as a photographer to guide yourself into thinking about buying one or not. Anyone remember those days when you started doing photography for the first time, and spent do much money buying a lot of photographic accessories to fill up your camera bag? Remember that over the many years, as you become specialist in one field (ie: becoming a sport photographer, or becoming a landscape photographer), you would later find that of all those accessories you bought, half of them haven't even been used at all.

We could have saved money by asking: Do I really need that fancy filter? Do I really need that cable release?

You could save a lot of money, not only because if you chose not to buy a tumbler dryer, but also in terms of electricity bills too, and also the costs of repairs. Plus you could help the planet Earth, if you chose to give up tumbler dryer.

In case you really need to get some clothes dry as quickly as possible (ie: for a job interview), you could always take the important clothes to the local launderette to get them dry fast, while you leave the less important ones to take dry out in the usual way. Or you could ask your family or friends for a favour and use their tumbler dryer if they have one.

I had been a very extremely busy full-time single parent of two kids, specially as I was a full-time carer for one of them whom have special needs. I did once think about a washing machine with built-in tumbler dryer so I could save time, but decided not to, on grounds of costs. The best thing to do was make sure there are plenty of spare clothes, so if the dirty ones were washed and takes long time to dry out, the kids will have spare cloths available.

In the event that if I needed a few clothes that really needs to be dried as soon as possible, I can always do that at the launderette.

It had helped me save costs.
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You could've saved a lot more by not having kids.....:p
 
onomatopoeia said:
Also, I don't know how much more life I'm going to get and I don't want to spend any of it washing dishes and pans in the sink.
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This ^

My dishwasher is a no-name counter top one, replaced just a couple of months ago a similar one that had lasted donkey's years.

Tumble dryer is an AEG condenser, couple of years old now and going strong. I do like not having to go out to the shed to empty it in the middle of winter.
 
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Anything that makes my existence more pleasant is very welcome.
Some people seem to delight in being martyrs, I'm not one of them.

Had a tumble dryer for the last thirty years, who wants damp clobber hanging up indoors.
 
Wouldn't be without our dryer now, even in summer we dry everything in it, faster and more convenient, doesn't use much power either.
 
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